Cultural Diversity in Parenting
Universal goals of parenting
Ensuring the physical survival & health of the child
Providing an environment for successful progression through the developmental stages
into adulthood
Teaching/modeling normative cultural & societal values
However…
How these goals are accomplished is not necessarily universal
Ethnic/racial variations
Historically considered due to deficiencies
Now viewed as legitimate adaptations to different contexts
Culture
Cultural group
A collective of individuals who share common beliefs, practices, ideals, values,
traditions & behaviors
Ethnic group
Cultural group that traces its origins to a particular area, region or country
Racial group
Categorization of humans into populations on the basis of various sets of heritable
characteristics (skin color, cranial/facial features, hair texture)
Cultural influence on parenting
Organization of everyday life
Physical & social settings
Parenting practices
Routines of care & training
Parental ethnotheories
Beliefs about children, families and themselves that are brought to interactions
with children
Physical and Social Settings
Influences what we have ethnocentrically believed is optimal development
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- Summer '07
- Roberts
- group Cultural group, Parenting Universal goals, Ethnic group Cultural group, Culture Cultural group, settings Parenting practices
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